This document provides an overview of an inventory control course. The course will cover deterministic and stochastic inventory models, including lot sizing models and extensions, reorder point determination, quantity discounts, and the Wagner-Whitin algorithm. It will also cover newsvendor models, period review models, multi-echelon models, and forecasting. The course content will analyze optimality of various inventory policies and production smoothing. It will provide an introduction to inventory management concepts and frameworks for modeling inventory systems.